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...Is Never Done: Films on Gender and Labor
(2000-2018, Digital/16mm/35mm, 72 min.)

Block Cinema welcomes Channels: A Quarterly Film Series, organized by local film programmers Josh B. Mabe and Erin Nixon, to present its newest installment in response to Visual Pleasures: The Work and Play of Women’s Liberation. This program features filmmakers that consider structures of the workplace, gendered labor, and the issues surrounding work and class, including films by Abigail Child, Janie Geiser, Cristiana Miranda, and others. Channels: A Quarterly Film Series presents experimental film, expanded cinema, documentary, installation, and video and new media art to audiences across Chicago.

Visual Pleasures: The Work and Play of Women’s Liberation
This year’s One Book One Northwestern selection, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, imagines how the hard-fought economic and sexual freedoms won by the women’s movement might be stripped away. The films in this series, co-presented with One Book, the Northwestern Women’s Center, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, manifest those freedoms in both form and content. Visual Pleasures encompasses both mainstream comedies of empowerment and experimental representations of desire through a distinctly female gaze, celebrating liberation through a spectrum of cinematic forms.